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Edward F. Welch, Jr.
Edward F. Welch, Jr. (13 November 1924 – 2 January 2008) was a rear admiral of the United States Navy active during much of the Cold War. His career included service as a submarine officer, positions related to nuclear warfare planning, arms control, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization affairs, and a tour as president of the Naval War College.
==Naval career==
Welch was born on 13 November 1924 in Barrington, Rhode Island.〔(Find-A-Grave Adm Edward F. Welch, Jr. (1924-2008) )〕 He attended the University of Rhode Island and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1943 during World War II. The Navy assigned him to the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Bainbridge, Maryland, before he entered the United States Naval Academy as a member of the class of 1948.〔(United States Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation )〕〔(''Newport Daily News'' Obituaries, Memorial, Funerals, and Donation Information: Edward F. Welch, Jr. )〕 He graduated in 1947, however, with a bachelor of science degree,〔(''Newport Daily News'' Obituaries, Memorial, Funerals, and Donation Information: Edward F. Welch, Jr. )〕 and after his commissioning that year he served in the Pacific aboard the destroyer and in the post-World War II occupation of Japan.〔(''Newport Daily News'' Obituaries, Memorial, Funerals, and Donation Information: Edward F. Welch, Jr. )〕 He attended submarine school in 1949,〔(''Newport Daily News'' Obituaries, Memorial, Funerals, and Donation Information: Edward F. Welch, Jr. )〕 after which he served first in the submarine and then in the submarine between 1949 and 1954.〔(washingtonpost.com Obituary: "Edward F. Welch, Jr.; Led Naval War College," January 16, 2008 )〕
In the mid-1950s, Welch was personal aide to the Commander, Submarine Force, United States Atlantic Fleet (ComSubLant).〔(washingtonpost.com Obituary: "Edward F. Welch, Jr.; Led Naval War College," January 16, 2008 )〕 He then served as executive officer of the submarine , which during his tour was awarded the Admiral Wright Award for forcing a Soviet Zulu-class missile submarine to surface in 1959. He then was commanding officer of the submarine from 1959 to 1961.〔(''Newport Daily News'' Obituaries, Memorial, Funerals, and Donation Information: Edward F. Welch, Jr. )〕
After leaving ''Odax'', Welch studied international affairs at Harvard University, receiving a master's degree in public administration in 1962.〔(''Newport Daily News'' Obituaries, Memorial, Funerals, and Donation Information: Edward F. Welch, Jr. )〕 From 1962 to 1964 he served in the Strategic Plans Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, then on the staff of ComSubLant from 1964 to 1966. He then attended the National War College in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1967, and commanded Submarine Division 42 at Charleston, South Carolina, from 1967 to 1968.〔(''Newport Daily News'' Obituaries, Memorial, Funerals, and Donation Information: Edward F. Welch, Jr. )〕
In 1968, Welch was assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he handled North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) affairs. In 1969 he became the Deputy Director for NATO Nuclear Planning, a position he held until 1971. He then led the International Negotiations Division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1971 to 1974,〔(''Newport Daily News'' Obituaries, Memorial, Funerals, and Donation Information: Edward F. Welch, Jr. )〕
during which he was responsible for participation in the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe on mutual and balanced force reductions between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces and attended arms control conferences in Helsinki, Finland, and Vienna, Austria.〔(washingtonpost.com Obituary: "Edward F. Welch, Jr.; Led Naval War College," January 16, 2008 )〕
Welch next was a member of the faculty of the National War College briefly before his promotion to rear admiral in April 1975. He then served in Belgium from 1975 to 1977 on the staff of the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (SACEUR), United States Army General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. From 1977 to 1979, he served in Washington, D.C. as Deputy Director of International Negotiations on the Joint Staff with responsibility to the Joint Chiefs of Staff for arms control talks.〔(''Newport Daily News'' Obituaries, Memorial, Funerals, and Donation Information: Edward F. Welch, Jr. )〕 During this tour, he played an important role on the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Standing Consultative Commission in 1977 and 1978 and was part of the delegation that accompanied President Jimmy Carter to the SALT II strategic arms limitation talks summit in Vienna, Austria, in June 1979.〔(washingtonpost.com Obituary: "Edward F. Welch, Jr.; Led Naval War College," January 16, 2008 )〕〔(''Newport Daily News'' Obituaries, Memorial, Funerals, and Donation Information: Edward F. Welch, Jr. )〕
On 22 August 1979, Welch became the 41st president of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island,〔(Past Presidents page at the Naval War College official Web site )〕 As college president, he emphasized fleet operations in the colleges curriculum and wargaming, instituted the Global Wargame, and established a program under which naval officer students could earn master's degrees – which the college did not offer at the time – by taking courses at other colleges and universities in the Newport area.〔(Past Presidents page at the Naval War College official Web site )〕 At his suggestion, the college's Center for Wargaming was included in the colleges new Center for Naval Warfare Studies, because he "believed that the wargaming center wasn't being used constructively enough for the Navy, and here was the chance to connect the officers who were going to produce new ideas with the officers who had a means of testing ideas and arguing issues on a grand scale through gaming."〔Perla, p. 98.〕 During his tour at the war college, Johnson and Wales University awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1981.〔(''Newport Daily News'' Obituaries, Memorial, Funerals, and Donation Information: Edward F. Welch, Jr. )〕
Welch retired from the Navy at the end of his tour at the war college on 17 August 1982.〔(Past Presidents page at the Naval War College official Web site )〕
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